Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-20

per tickets, and carriages conveyed them
to the polls. After voting, many remained
at the polls to use their persuasive
powers.
The women opposed to law and order
had no headquarters and were not strong
enough to assemble, but they worked with
an energy worthy of better cause. The
utmost decOrum prevailed and good
nature reigned supreme.
SO far as am able to scan the infiu.
ence and results Of woman suffrage, in
this trying position, where good and bad
used sll possible influence, l conclude
that as many women will vote as men
where the issues are moral rather than
| financial.
! Women belonging to churches, philau-
thrCpic women, practical, domestic wives
and careful mothers form the msjoIi y
vote for law and order.
Women whose husbands are dealers in
intoxicents, and those having husbands
interested in the Jobs and rings of the ad-
ministratiou,
ARE STIRRING CAMPAIGNERS
in their own supposed interests regardless
| OF public welfare or good morals.
! The few keepers and inmates of broth
els voted, but went Immediately from the
polls.
! Wives of drinking men, unless German,
almost invariably voted for temperance,
and many Germans were persistent work
| ers for the law and order ticket. AoOut
One-third Of all German women voted the
| temperance ticket, the remaining two
thirds would not ''vUte away der liberty
and der beer" This merely shows the
necessity of work among the Germans.
Irish women were not as ready to regis
ter as other classes of foreigners, but l
did not find one that voted other than
the straight temperance ticket. Some
were enthusiastic workers.
The COlOred women were the most
Jealous canVassers, were the most de
termined workers on election day for law
and order, and were the most Outspoken
against those men of their race who sold
their votes or worked for other than tenn
perance and the Republican ticket.
WILL THEY BUY AND SELL?
Yes, in few instances only. There
were those who corrupted and were cor
rupted, and those that inundated and
were inundated. but this was done by
house to house calling by women as
general thing calling themselves the Cup
per stratum" of society, their chief Occu-
patton being poOdle-petting, progressive
euchre playing and growing at ''inefi-
cient servants" These women used
their pernicious influence usually upon
very poor and dependent women who
feared to offend them.
The result, officially counted out, in
LeavenWortb, where the good and bad
elements of society were brought to the
surface, was fully twO-thirds for temper
ance, law, order and men of the cleanest
records. Fhe last election put the Dem
ocratic mayor in power, as we'll as the
large majority Of his couD-
Gil by 1900 majority. The present
returns, which are at this writing con-
sidered fraudulent, return the same May
or by bare sixteen majority with
council for law and order. Thus by
woman's first attempt at city politics the
Democratic stronghold of Kansas, with
its whisky alliance, has Its majority wiped
out, and Democracy must cross the river
on this question as it did in the days of
slavery.
NOT DEMOCRATIC MAYOR
is left in Kansas. women of Topeka, Fort
Scott and other cities having done the
same good service for the Republicans of
Kansas. Municipal corruption is one of
the great questions of American politics,
the tramp and saloon vote bOlstering
Democracy to the detriment of good
morals and good government Kansas
women have proven, by their conduct
in the present contest, that the
home vote is all powerful to overcome
both these Democratic influences. The
party that lives in q republic must Iegis-
late in the moral interests of the people.
The Republican party of Kansas has
acted wisely, as the test shows, in en-
frsnchlsing her women. So let us rea-
sonably conclude that, as human nature
is about the same the states over, the
Republican party has nothing TO
lose and all to gain 6y advocating
and bringing about the enfranchisement
of women as it did the negro. Negro
suffrage was q political necessity to save
the Republican party. Woman suffrage
is no less moral necessity for the per.
petuity of good government. Kansas is a
worthy leader to follow.
HELEN NJ. COUGAR.